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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
i cannot emphasize enough how load-bearing the false belief dismantled here is to the larger techno-authoritarian project
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s3esfogo246exeglag22eq4o/post/3m7s3uawq6k22
The same view seeded the populist right narrative for Brexit, and carries on in the debates about Brexit 2.0, how real Brexit, that properly detaches us from the EU, was never tried.
these guys talk about europe - by which they mean the postwar order where the baseline standards of behavior are liberal-democratic, with an emphasis on the rule of law and fundamental rights as opposed to force and domination - the same way that imperialists 100 years ago talked about “the orient”
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